This document provides information on professional learning conversations, blended learning, and an assignment on collaborative inquiry. It discusses teaching challenges and how to handle them. It also addresses features of blended learning such as connecting online and offline work, student collaboration and control, and using learning management systems. Finally, it introduces an assignment to find a literacy learning challenge to pursue in groups.

1. EDUC 8P20
Week 11
2014-15

3. Professional Learning Conversations
• Teaching-Learning Critical Pathways

4. “Mr. Entwhistle” from Hey World, Here I AM!

5. Writing Prompt - Memoir
• Think of a challenge you experienced in your
recent teaching block. It could have been related
to classroom management, a child with special
needs, and aspect of the curriculum, dealing with
parents etc.
• What was the specific nature of the challenge?
• How did you handle it?
• What aspects of your response worked well?
• What changes might you make if faced with a
similar challenge in the future?

6. Notes From the Field 2
Jot down 3 issues or big ideas you’ve noticed
that get in the way of student Language learning

8. Blended Learning
• … a formal education program in which a
student learns at least in part through online
delivery of content and instruction with some
element of student control over time, place,
path, and/or pace and at least in part at a
supervised brick-and-mortar location away
from home. (Staker & Horn, 2012)

9. In other words…
• Students attend school in a building
• Also learn content via online delivery
• Increased student control as they exercise
responsibility for what they learn, when they
learn, and how fast they learn
(Gonzalez, 2014)

10. Blended Learning and Technology
Integration
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD8AUfG
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11. Features of Blended Learning
• Seamless connection between online and
offline work
• Increased student-to-student and student-to-
teacher collaboration and control over:
– time, pace, place path
• Online classroom presence via Learning
Management System (LMS) such as Sakai or
Desire to Learn (D2L)
• Repurposed time

12. E-learning Ontario
www.ontario.ca/elearning

13. E-Learning Handout
• Read the handout individually
• Respond to the questions provided: reflect on
your teaching block and where your setting
fell along the blended learning continuum
• Do not sign your survey sheet

14. Collaborative Inquiry Assignment
• Find a concern/challenge in literacy learning
that you would like to pursue further
– Visit one of the posted topics along the wall
• Create a group of 4 with similar interests
• Handout: overview of assignment